PAUL KANTNER – BLOWS AGAINST THE EMPIRE LP – EXC UK JEFFERSON AIRPLANE

Paul Kantner – Blows Against The Empire
(RCA Records  1971  SF8163)
UK Pressing

EJ Day Gatefold Sleeve in Excellent/Very Good+ condition
– some wear to edges & some rubbing on front and some ringwear on the back
No Booklet

Vinyl in Excellent condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl which do give light pops/crackles but sound quality is excellent overall)

Blows Against the Empire is a concept album by Paul Kantner and Grace Slick, released under the name Paul Kantner and Jefferson Starship, the first album to use the “Starship” name, although the personnel line-up was not the same as would appear on the first actual Jefferson Starship album. It was released in 1970 as RCA Victor LSP-4448.

Track listing

Personnel

• Paul Kantner – vocals, electric guitars, acoustic guitars, banjo, bass machine
• Grace Slick – piano, vocals
• Jerry Garcia – banjo on “Let’s Go Together”, pedal steel guitar on “Have You Seen the Stars Tonite”, sound effects and vocals on “XM”, lead guitar on “Starship”
• Bill Kreutzmann – drums on “Let’s Go Together”
• Mickey Hart – percussion on “Have You Seen the Stars Tonite”, sound effects and vocals on “XM”
• Joey Covington – drums and vocals on “Mau Mau”, congas on “Hijack”
• Jack Casady – bass on “A Child Is Coming” and “Sunrise”
• David Crosby – vocals and guitar on “A Child Is Coming” and “Have You Seen the Stars Tonite”, background vocals on “Starship”
• Graham Nash – congas on “Hijack”, sound effects on “Home”, background vocals on “Starship”
• David Freiberg – background vocals on “Starship”
• Harvey Brooks – bass on “Starship”
• Peter Kaukonen – lead guitar on “Mau Mau”
• Phill Sawyer^[9] – sound effects on “Home” and “XM”

Production

• Paul Kantner – producer, design
• CCCP – cover
• Patti Landres – books
• Jim Goldberg – space, design, all the work
• Tony Nagamuma – title
• Allan Zentz, Pat Ieraci, Graham Nash, David Crosby, Phill Sawyer, Bob Shoemaker – engineers
• Thanks to Kurt Vonnegut, Robert A. Heinlein, Michael Cooney, Jean Genet, Mike Lipskin, Buckminster Fuller, Theodore Sturgeon, A. A. Milne, John Lear and The Bear – thanks